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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS - PRQM - THE MORNING PAPERS, APRIL 24,:1828,_ [THE TIMES 4 Our. City accounts are, as willbe observed, of a very sliscoureging description.; and, as is Usual with those '''Who see but an inch before them, the most inappli ..vable expedients are talked about, as remedies for evils which are merely felt, without being accurately piched or comprehended. If the people are dying of - want, they must' be relieved at . all hazards. It never • was the intention of God Almighty that his creatures should look on, while-their fellows perish before them. The-people, therefore, we say again, must be fed, let who will pay for their sustenance. But there are posi•- . tive laws, which.provide the means of relief, when those resources fail. Come to GOvernment, and it will be the paramount duty of. Government, if no. other Means can be found, -to save their poor countrymen from famine. If theory condemns this advice, we are in , different—,lhe end: of all just theory is the public wel fare, and the existence of men is the first of all Physi cal good. But, for the , nature and probable duration of these commercial embarrassments, 'what can be learned by « Parliamentary inquiry," as the city people recommend ?' We, have a lready • the opi nions of all the mast enlightened individuals in Par liament, as well as out of it : these opinions, too, founded on deliberate investigation, which the period of the session would not now afford—and on more various and abundant testimony, than could be on the space of the moment: collected.: That the• state of English commerce and of finance must lead ere long to measures of unexampled energy and. importance, we do not disguise our belief. There must be an ex tensive reduction of expenditure—there must be a very large remission of taxes.. When such things fail, it may be time to talk about-the debt ; but to go on as we arc at this moment, is physically and obviously impossible. It is frequently our duty to write.upon the Poors , Laws generally, the rates, and the manner of levying and applying them. There is, we believe, however, .a grievance in the system which we have not yet noticed, but of which we hear.. complaints. That grievance comes under the- head of Local Acts," for the mit nagenzent, support, and discipline of the poor. Now these local acts were never, we believe, intended as any thing but experiments, and having as experiments uni versally failed, it is as irrational to persevere in them, 'as if; a process having taken phut() send up a balloon, and having failed, the would-be aeronaut should still continue to supply the prostrate machine with gas. It was once thought that the poor might not xmly bt made to support themselves, but even supply their respective parishes with a fund for other purposes. A notable project : as if a poor man, who could not maintain , a family by his own free labour, could be forced'to maintain it, and feed his gaolers, in a house of industry. Upon this principle, however, it was not - unusual for several contiguous parishes -to unite and become- incorporated, having one common house of inanary; and - the mischief is, that such parishes are now held together by the original act, when all hope of common advantage has ceased. The re claimants against any change,—that is, against revert , ing to the general law of the land,--,-are such parishes in any association, as pay less than-they ought. PM', the original sum to which each parish should be liable • liavindlven fixed, the changes in the. state of trade and population have rendered that sum exorbitant to one parish, and trifling to another : and it is parishes of the latter description that object' to the necessary change,—that is, they would continue to make the . other parishes linked in the association, maintain their poor: Tait, the'injtistice of this pretension proyei, we ,should thin, the certainty of its - being rejected, if pro= per firmness be shown on the other side. Our atten. taw been attracted to this subject by a report which -we have scan on an act of the late King, incorporating the Pziriihes of Shrewsbury for the relief and em . 40yinent of the poor. CMORNING IIItRALD.3 One of most striking abuses and defects of the law, as practised in thus country, is the facility with which it can be made the instrument, in the hands of low or needy practitioners, to suit their own purposes of gain, totally without reference to any interests what. ever of their supposed employers.. It would not, we belifi've, be going top far, to say that fully_one forth of the actions at law, and no small proportion of 'suits in equity, are commenced. for no other purpose but to put costs into the pockets of attorneys, where the clients have nothing upon earth to expect or •do `with the matter, farther than sometimes lending their .:awn vindictive feelings to the still baser propensities of these sworn ministers of justice. The Press is pecu liarly the object of this system of oppression ; and instances arenot wanting where actions are brought in ,the names of persons apparently respectable, with the view of extorting money to pay their attorneys' previous demand,;, which such persons (some puffing, philan thropists perhaps) had no other means of dis 4harging. in a :recent- instance actions have been brought .successively against the proprietors of seve daily papers for a supposed libel in an adver ,:tisement, relative to some quack medicine ; and though, from Ow good sense and integrity of the Jury in the first case, only nominal, damages were .obtained, ..the. parties, nothing daunted, proceed in other suits-- not with the most distant hopes of greater success in point. of damages, but solely with the view, as may be fairly inwined; to'which we have. before alluded. It is . n6t . sohTly with the vie* of 'sheltering nurselves, or tbe public Press alone, from the consequence of such pcoceedlngs, that ~ ye draw the attention of Our readers to it, but to put the public in general on their guard against a nefarious practice, of which every man in tioeietfis liable by turns to become the victim ; and to cell upon Judges, as those which we 'allude to have recently done, to defeat, as fir as they are 'able, a sys tem f raug ht w ith such . abuse and oppression. .:God Egibid that the avenues of justice should ever be closed against the honest claim and wrongs of any man ; but justice• itself is libelled and disgraced when it is per-, Milted to be the instrument of extort i on in the hands of worildt,ss and unworthy members. It is by the j#int.efferts of Juries and of the Press that such a stern "can alone be met and defeatedll : it is the in -111444 of the latter to do its duty, and we have the firm . est confidence, from what has , just passed in the in stance we allude to, that the former will not be want ing in theirs. We cannot imagine any earthly reason for the groat 'precipitancy 'with which Ministers seem inclined to urge the close of the present Session of Parliament, and with it its dissolution. They certainly must see with different eyes from those of the generality of man kind, if they think they perceive in the present mo ment any thing which points it out as peculiarly auspicious for an appeal to the people, or for the agi tation and turmoil of a contested election. At any rate, there can be nothing so tempting in the particu lar period as to furnish a reason why the dissolution should take place at the risk of postponing for another year the important subjects which are thus cut short by this hasty proceeding. It surely would be better, both for the character of Parliament, as well "as for the general good of the country, that such Bills as Mr. Peel's for the Reform of the Criminal Law, and those arising out of the Chancery Report should have passed this Ses sion, instead of being postponed, with the chance that there always is of postponement and abandonment amounting to the same thing. AS a matter of policy, too, we think it would have been both just and pru dent that the Parliament should have closed its la bours with the eclat which the passing of such mea sures would have afforded. As it is, the general elec tion will not take place under the most favourable circumstances, except in one respect—viz. that the strong Anti-Catholic excitement which existed last year now no longer continues. But though the people will come to the poll with feelings less exasperated upon the subject, we would not have the Catholics deceive themselves by imagining that in the result the elections are likely to be one jot more favourable to them than they would have been had the dissolution taken place, as it was expected to have done a twelvemonth ago. Though angry feel ings have in a great degree sobered down and sub sided, we believe they have so settled down, as far as the feelings of the mass of the people are concerned, into a strong and rivetted conviction against the Ca tholic Claims ;• and we strongly suspect that the new Parliament, whenever it assembles, will not add, upon the balance, a single vote in their favour. After all, the approaching election will in all probability pass over, for the most part, more q uietly than any which has been known. Money, which is the sinew of all contests, is not at this moment over plentiful ; and even were it otherwise, there are very obvious reasons which would render any very lavish expenditure of it, under existing circumstances, foolish and imprudent in the extreme.—(/bid.) [THE EERESENTATIVE.] Mr. Whitmore has had the satisfaction of making a very elaborate speech on the Corn Laws, and the thinking part of the public have the satisfaction of knowing that this very complicated and disputed ques tion is at rest for the present year. We have always felt that the application of the protecting, in opposition to the prohibitory system, to the home production of this staple of English existence, was a question not to be decided upon the ordinary and received principles of political economy. According to that exact science, it can never be the interest of a country to compel the production within itself of a commos'Aty which can be obtained from another country, by exchanging a smaller ' amount of labonr; employed on some other article. This is true in regard to commodities, the abundance or scarcity of which is indifferent to the maintenance of people, but as the interruption of inter-national commerce is almost an inevitable consequence of the state of mankind, the supply of this staple artiele,, upon which that maintenance depends, should be rendered, as far as possible, independent of ontingent.disturbance. The effect of the present Corn Laws, which go be yond mere protection, and approach prohibition, has been, to keep the poorer soils,, which came into culti vation during the war, still employed. Let a reason able protecting.duty be imposed—and let the impor tation of foreign corn become:a branch of regular, and not periodical, conimerce—these poorer soils must be abandoned, and the market become, .proportionately dependent upon that oornmerce for supply. It appears, from Mr. Jacob's researches, that the effect of our Corn Laws has been to throw much land in the countries from whence the English Market was . partially sup plied, out cultiVation that much distress and de terioration of property have been the consequences.— This is, doubtless, very lamentable to those countries, and to the European philanthropist: The impo verished land-owner, whether his name be Czar -torinsky. or Lethbridge, 'is equally an object. of compassionate consideration ; but, as Englishmen, in despite of the obloquy which the confession may draw upon us, we will say that the conversion of arable land into• pasturage,. in Poland or elseivhere, and all its attendant reductions of rents, are to us matters of secondary consideration ; nay, ifthe cultivation' of poorer English soils has been the, cause, we must add, that we have so much national selfishness as scarcely to .deplore' the occurrence. It was impossible, however, for a benevolent-minded man, like Mr. Jacob, to have witnessed the falling off in the value of insky and nosky- property, and the consequent - discomfort to the princely proprietors; without ,sympathy: Such sights mortalta pectora iangunt, and the feeling, that this scene of extended Northern distress had been produced by a selfish exclusion ,of foreign corn froth: the English market, was, indeed, most pitiful. 'Conversion from the prohibiting system would be the consequence ; while the gratitude of Northern Europe, and the approbation of philosophers, would present ample sources of consolation for the reproaches of the unenlightened land-owners of England. -- A protecting duty of thirty per, cent. has'been con sidered necessary, to secure the supply of the home market to the silk-Manufacturer. It such be. the amount of protection required for a commodity in which there seems no sufficient reason for permanent national inferiority, What must be the extent of pro tection necessary to the home production of an article of .indispensable consumption, and. ,in the growth of which there 'is a permanent . and national inferiority? That the system of averages is vicious, in operation, if not in principle, has been sufficiently shown ; the com plete: exclusion of foreign corn, except in seasons of ab solute scarcity, is a proposition not to be entertained ; and the Modified admission is the only alternative.— In our opinion; corn, cheap, as referred to Conti nental prices, cannot be grown in England, without an abandonMent of the poorer soils, which would not bear the expellee of cultivation, unless protected frOni foreign competition. Their abandpment ap pears to Lis - a serious evil, and .we sincerely hope, that whenever the -question is taken up by the Ministers, the permanent interests of the - nation at large will not receive less protection than the silk manufacturer has met with, on the snbStitution of the protecting for the prohibiting system of eomuiercial intercourse. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. When the subject of this venerable edifice was brought before Parliament lately, we were surprised that none of the critical. Connoisseurs of the Legisla ture. took the opportunity of noticing what to us ap- . pears a glaring inconsistency in the present architectu ral appearance of the choir. We allude to the new screen behind the altar, which, beautiful as it is, con sidered in itself, is completely at variance in its style with all the rest of the edifice. The late screen was removed, because a spurious kind of Romano-Grecian architecture was thought improper in a Gothic church : We applaud the taste which dictated this, but we wou ld ask, is it at all more consistent to place in a building, which is the finest specimen of the early painted English style, a screen which exhibits the most florid decorations of the latest flat-arched Gothic ? ROYAL WESTMINSTER INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EYE. A Meeting of the Friends of this Charitable Institution was held on Saturday, at the Thatched House Tavern, on matters re lating to the proposed building of an Infirmary, on a piece of ground allocated to that purpose, muter the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, in the line of improve ments upon the Crown Lands. It was expected that the Duke of Yonx would preside at the Meeting ; but at half-past one o'clock Sir Willoughby Gordon an nounced, that . his Royal Highness was prevented from attending by an indispensable engagement. Lord LYNEDOCK having then been called to the Chair, briefly explained the object of the meeting; and stated that it would be necessary to nominate Trustees, in whom the property of ,the ground assigned by the Commissioners should be invested, for the benefit of the Charity. This measure was designed to facilitate the execution of a conveyance. Lora BREADALBANE proposed a resolution, which was se conded by Mr. Byng, appointing Lord Lynedock, J. E. Swin burne, Esq.. G. Byng, Esq., J. P. Beresford, Esq., and Colonel Wood, Trustees to the Building Fund. Sir J. BERESFORD moved, and Sir J. DYNC seconded, an ad- - dress to the Commissioners, praying them to assign the ground in question. Both resolutions having been unanimously agreed to, Mr. GUTHRIE, Surgeon to the Infirmary, stated that the great importance of the Institution, and the necessity of perpetuating its advantages by procuring an adequate building, with a secure and permanent tenure. Since the establishment of the Charity, he said, that eleven thousand patients had been admitted; ninety of whom had been received since the Sd of the present month. The relief thus afforded to the public was not the only, nor perhaps the chief advantage connected with the Institution ; it was at least equally important, considered as a school for the instruction of youth, designed for the professon of Surgery. In proof of the perfection to which the treatment of oculor diseases had been brought, he pointed to a man present, who (though blind for 20 yeari) had been restored to sight under his care. He also alluded to the case of a young lady, the daughter of a. naval officer, who had lost one of her eyes, in consequence of injudicious practice on the part of the medical gentleman, in whose hands she wasplaced, but whose remaining eye was saved by a timely application to him (Mr. Guthrie). The Marquis of LowoosfnEnivi, after expressing regret that he was not so happy as to have been present at the Anniversary Din ner, proposed, as a debt of gratitude, a resolution of the thanks of the Committee to Dr. Forbes and Mr. Guthrie for their indefati gable exertions in favour of the Charity. Dr. FORBES declared himself grateful for the honour conferred upon him. Thanks having been voted to the Noble Chairman, the Meeting separated athalf-past two o'clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE. BOROUGH COURT, SATURDAY, Amu, 22. WOOD V. JOHNSON. The plaintiff is a tea-dealer and grocer, resident in the High street, Borough, the defendant formerly a sugar-baker, now living in the Paragon, New Kent-road, and the action brought for 21. 12s Bd., the amountof a hill for goods delivered. The case weir undefended, and promised nothing whatever of interest until the verdict was delivered for the sum sought, and the next case called on, when a young man, who had made one of the 12, stepped from the jury-box, and begged the COurt to excuse his master, Mr. jonas; Who had been Simmioned, but unable to attend from illneSs. The . Thecoantit.--And pray who are you ?—My name is Johnson, my Lord, I am apprenticed 'to Mr. Jones. The REconnEa.And how came you into the jury -box?— Hearing my master's name called, I filled his place, fearing he' would be fined. _ ; I'hell.7;coanEa.—You area very stupid young man. Gen tleman, this case must be heard de novp. A spare juryman 'being in Court, was onvorn, and a fresh ver dict given. The novelty of the case excited considerable merriment, and afforded un opportunity for some pertinent remarks of the ,Counsel as to refreshing fees. ' POLICE 'INTELLIGENCE. ALLIANCE GRANITE AND CHINA CLAY COA:PANY. MANSION-HOUSE.—Gn Saturduy.Mr. Roberta,-,Mr. Bleu. den, and Mr. Hone, Directors in the Alliance Granite and China Clay Company,' attended at the Justice-room, in consequence of -the.complaint• made the day before, by Mr.' Brooks, a surgeon, who declared that he had•beon done out of 1251., and that thereof of the shareholders.were.about 8,000/, the worse for the specula tion by reason of the ingenuity of the Directors in appropriating the capital. Mr. BROOKS stated, that by the advice -of Mr. Hodgson, a Director in the Company, he had paid,l2s/..10,r 60 shares, in the expectation that hie mousy could not he more advantageously employed. The value of the scrip, _ however, became extremely low, and • upon inquiry he learned that two months after the first deposit laid been .poid,. all the money, with the exception of Vi. la. 7d. had been drawn out of the 'banker's hands, and that nothing at all had ,been done in the concern, ,or *as likely to be done in it. Ile applied to the,directors in vain. They did not even condescend to reply to him, and he believed that they had divided.tbe whole of the cash- amongst thaw/4,M0. The de, lusion • was a most barefaced one. No prospectus bad been printed; no meeting, had taken place—no statement of the con dition'Of affairs had been made. There was no evidence of the exist tence of such a company at all, except the evidence .in an adver tisement which appeared in" The Tunes newspaper last August, assuring the public that the directors kid secured an inexhaustible quarry of granite of. the finest quality, together with ground, yielding an abundance of superb china clay ;- that their bankers, Messrs. Everett and Co., would receive deposits at the rate of 2!. 10a. per share, and that a prospectus would be ready in a few days. The directors themselves retTived most of the money sub scribed ; and no more, he' had reason to believe, than 40/. ex. pence had been incurred. He could prove every thing he had mentioned, and requelited, that, in consequence, of the absence of a material witness, the ease might stand over for a few days. Mr.- Blefulen said, the charge was calumnious, and without the slightest foundation. - The company had hem formed in the firmest hope of success. It had been calculated by those who were qua lified to judge, that it would, when in operation, yield 50 per cent. at least. The money had been drawn Out of the banker's hands it was true, but how was the ground to be paid for with out touching the capital? 2,1001. had been given for - the estate, end the rest had been expended in-the necessary operations. At pre ient the concern was at a stand-still for, the want of money, but who would, at such a time, when bona fide companies were suffering in the general. condemnation of all speculation of this kind, think of making a call? The dircetora wished that the strictest examination into their conduct shotdd take place. They were not to bl ame , f or the compara ti ve ly low price of the stock. Even t'Je Real d e l M onte Oares, which were once at 1,600!. a share, were now at a discount, and there. Was not a company that had not suffered. - - 'The ].ores MAYOn said the complainant must prove the misap plication of the money. His Lordship expressed his surprise that no prospectus had been issued, although it had been promised, that no meeting had taken place, and that no account had been publish ed for the satisfaction of the shareholders. Mr. Bleaden eaid the Directors had been silent upon the sub- ject from policy. The fact was, a dispute had taken place be tween the two lords of the manor in , which the estate lay, and as the circumstance of the quarrel might have proved, injurious to the interests of the shareholders in their opinion, it -was thought expedient to publish nothing at all about the concern.—(A laugh.) —The' quarrel had been, however, adjusted, and now nothing impeded the prosperity of the concern but the want of capital. Mr. Brooks persisted in his charge of gross misapplication, and declaimed against the conduct of the Directors, who, he said, were alsO directors 'of several other coMpanies, which had been got up for the purpose of affording a premium ! after which the directors were regardless of what became of them. Mr. tleaden.—Wily, Mr. Brooks, you had so high an opinion of this company, that you did all you could to become a director in it yourself.--(A laugh.) Brooks declared that he had refused to become a direc tor in it. Mr. Bleaden—You need not abuse this company, for every one knows what sort of a company the London Drug Company 'was. Who was the projector of that company ?—Why, no other than Mr. Brooks.—(Laughter.) Mr. Brooks could not help smiling at this retort. Mr. Bleaden—You accuse us of being Directors in humbug companies. We must positively and solemnly deny the truth of the charge. It is well known that you have been at the hatching of two steam companies amongst the rest, and now you pretend that you have been imposed upon as an innocent, unsuspecting shareholder.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR said, he could easily perceive that Mr. Brooks's object in purchasing the shares was to sell them at a premium, and that he had placed the same sort of confidence in in the directors which had been placed in himself, when he was acting in the capacity of director of those lucrative concerns allud ed to.—(A laugh.) Mr. Brooks did not deny that he had filled the important situa tion. He, however, thought that a comparison of rnetits had no reference to this question. He believed that his money was in the pockets of the directors ; and Mr. Florence, the gent to the com pany, was so much ashamed of it, that he would willingly give up the 801. which he had received for business done, to have his name erased from the concern. Mr. Bleaden said a most important grant had been lately made to the company, and he could show that it would turn out profit-. able not oily to the proprietors, but to the country.—(A laugh.) The Loan MAYou..(to Mr. Brooks)—What hopes were held out to You to induce you to buy the shares? Mr.- Brooks.- r I was assured that London Bridge was to be built with the granite.—(Laughter.) The . Loan MAyoa said, that was a most ridiculous delusion, as it was known well that the materials for building London bridge had been contracted for long before the company could have been thought of. He did not consider from what he had heard, that the directors had misapplied the money which had been subscribed. He should, . however, enter into particulars upon a future clay;• and he .requested that all the persons who could assist in the investigation would come forward. The case differed essentially from that of Goundry, and from others, of which he had seen proper notice taken in the columns of the Times, which had with such amazing force ridiculed and condemned the innu merable delusions practised on the Stock Exchange. The case stands for Tuesday. GUILDHALL.—George Bird, a horse-dealer, appeared to answer the complaint of Mr. Barrowcliff, of , the Regent Circus, who stated, that, on the 14th instant, he purchased of the de •fendant, in Smithfield Market, a black snare, with a warranty that it was perfectly sound. The price he gave was, however, only 121. The horse was led home to a livery-stable, at the west-end of the town, by an assistant; and repeatedly on the way he was bantered . by passing horse-dealers, on having bought a bargain. Two days after it had been hentsed in the stable, he received an intimation that the horse was glandered, and that the infection had been communicated to Lord Bolton's valuable stud, which happened to be at the' same place, for all the injury to which he would be held responsible. Be now wished the Alderman to hold the defendant to bail, as he was determined to prose cute him,. and two others, for conspiring to defraud him of the price he had given for the animal. Overtures had been made to him to come to a compromise with the parties ; but he did net care for the-money, and he should certainly persist in invoking the severest penalty of the law upon the offenders. The defendant denied that he was aware of the Unsoundness of the mare ; he bought it at Aylesbury only a few days before, under a warranty of soundness, of a respectable man. He was ready to snake all things right ; and if the Gentleman was not willing, he could spend NU in defending his conduct. Mr. Alderman Key com mended Mr. Barrowcliff's determination, and said he was cure he would be doing an immense service to the public. He, however, declined holding the prisoner to bail, in the first instance ; but that would not prevent Mr. Ilarrowcliff from preferring his indictment. MARLB ORO UGH-STREET. —Awic w I RD RECOGNITION. —Saturday T. Broderick, who said he was a fishmonger's shop man, was committed for trial for robbing Mr. Buchanan of his pocket-handkerchief. • Mr. Buchanan stated that, in passing along Great Earl -street, St. Giles's, in the evening, he detected the prisoner picking his pocket. He turned round, and saw the prisoner give his hand kerchief to a companion, who escaped. He seized the prisoner, and gave him into the custody of a watchthan. The watchman gave evidence of taking the prisoner, who mere ly denied the, theft. While the prisoner's commitment was being made out, J. Sla ter came into the office, and told the Magistrate that the coat on the prisoner's back was his property. He deposed thjit he lived in Rose and.. Crown-street, estminster ; that some time ago he lived with Sir R. Milbank, who gave him his left-off apparel; that knowing the prisoner, who then lived with Mr. Plater, the fishmonger, he offered him the coat for 75., and left it with Mr. Plater, who was to have received the money. The prisoner left Mr. Plater's service the same evening, without paying for the coat, and had never been met with since. Mr. Plater confirmed this witness's statement. Mr. DYER asked the witness • how he knew the prisoner was a: the office? - Slater said, in accidentally passing the office he waited till a coach at the door had dischatgerl its fare, when seeing the pri soner get out with his coat on his back, he told it to one of the constables, who desired him to go in and tell the Magistrate. The coat was taken from the prisoner, and ' g iven to the owner, who walked away with it under his arm, while the prisooer walk, ed to the lock-up place in his shirt-leevee. . A Commis CASE.-Saturday, a young woman, named Mary Kerry, was held to hail, charged with creating a riot at a house in Bolton-street, under the following curious circumstances. From the statement of the complainant, a handsome looking woman and of respectable connexions, it appeared that she was about three years ago seduced by a man of property, and they went to Ireland, where the prisoner was hired as a servant; after being some time there they returned to England, bringing the prisoner with them. Shortly after their arrival, the sdlucer left his vic tim, without making any provision for her, who being entirely dependent, and having forfeited the protection of her family by her conduct, she in this situation discharged the prisoner, but, at the 'same time, knowing herself to be the cause- of bringing the girl to England, and fearing, by being friendless and unprotected, she might fall into the same error that she herself had, she told the prisoner that, until she procured a situation, whatever she wanted for her support to apply to her for : the consequences were, she divided her purse with her, and afterwards the money which she raised upon her property ; but this having failed, and being in great distress, she got the prisoner to lend her some ,of her cloth: s to pledge, which she did; a few weeks after the trans action the prisoner became quite changed, demanding her clothes, and also to be sent back to Ireland, and on her informing the pri soner of her incapability of doing so, she came and caused a dis turbance. This she passed by: it was repeated, and again for given ; and knowing herself to be the cause of the girl coming to London, she gave her 4s. 6d. last week, being all the money she could raise, leaving herself destitute ; but this not being sufficient, the prisoner came on Friday night, and having caused a mob to gather round the house, threatened to stab her., Mr. DYER, said it was a very curious case, and asked the pri soner if she had any thing to say in her defence. The girl entered into a long unconnected detail, in the course .of which she insisted on being sent.back to Ireland, as she had no friends here, and also of having her clothes redeemed, which were pledged for 41. 10s. ; and having no means of living she had a right to apply to her mistress for money, and would until she sent her back to Ireland. Mr. Dv a—But what do you say to the threat of stabbing your mistress? Kerry—l only said I would stab her on Friday ni g ht, if I could reach her; but let her send me back to I re l an d, an d that is all I wanted of her. Mr. Dvxa then asked the complainant if she was fearful th a t ansucl i i n o t r i c ie urr a menr inti ce a wo ve, uld take place, which qu es ti on b e i ng an sweredthe girl was 6:44 upfor bail. " FINE ARTS.—We have seen an engraving by Reynoldg, from Mr•. Clutntry's bust of his Majesty, which re fleets the highest credit on that inimitable artist. It is intended for one of the fifteen illustrations to Sir Andrew Halliday's His tory of the House of Hanover, theannouncement of which for publication has already excited considerable interest. COUNTRY MARKgt DURING THE LAST YV tied t ~Beans.j ILia rtc) Per Quart er. Alnwick Andover Arundel Ashborne Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath lila nd ford Bridgewater livid port Bristol Bury St. Edmund's Cambridge Canterbury Car lisle (*bard ...... a... • Clielsoiford Chesterfield Colchester Daventry Derby Devises Doncaster Dorchester Exeter .. . Eye Gloucester Guildford l~rtrtr' Hexharn Horiiciist le Hull Hinigerlord Hunt ingduti Ipswich I;ectis Lewes Leicestei .. Lincoln I.4.ughborougli Louth Lyon Maidstone :Market flarborough Morl.rth Newbury . Newcastle Newport (Isle of Wight) Northampton Not Norwich Plymouth Reading Romsey Salisbury Sandwich Sheffield Shelton Mallet Sherbut Ire Stamford Sunderland Swansea Taunton Truro Uppingham Uxbridge Waketitld Want age Waru►i Oster tVincliesttr Wisbeeli I'm mouth Yroril Yoi k . Per Bus:tel. iiirnringiranr 8011 Ili ill Buckingham Irelrenhani Coventry Lieretord... New•ca , tle (Staff.) Northallerton oxford Prnrrth Penzance Shrewsbury Stafford Warwick Worcester Per 1011. Barnardcastic Darlington Dutharn Statillope Stockton Woliingbant v.®), _ 33 6 i 1 5 7 , 10 6 6 ;0 jt 44 6: 10 ifi 6, 40 64 fib tit II lu -.9 - 1 • .$O 3t) • 37 1 • .31-# IS 31, 10 34 31 - 39 84 36 12 40 30 Bsl it; 4. 41 34 46, 4I 13 3 , 44) az, it Sib it 29 S. It SI , 0 35, 9 9.` 28 8t• O 34 28 33 10 33 37 3b i 4 33 IS Si t 8 3.- 36 39 28 3: 31 3; 46 Si 161 4' 27 a: 26 30 :3t 3i 41, 5 t, 5 c 5 4 17 t f 5 - 4bi l ei 21) 1 25 28 21 27' 19 3*R 24 31, as i;' 24 3a 24 95 20 94 124 84 121 3 I I 20 9$ 26 24 3i 22 25 21 ib 22 '3O 20 27 24 22 .37/ t 7 hnl 20 36 2.1 9E4 12 26 15 SO 14 an 24 /0 if , ' 120 25 22 27 4 : 4 13 24 24 3:i !:t 24 47 20 '.241 24 281 24 20 46; 4 - s '@ I ' l -- $2 4ti 54. - - 4 - 4 - 3 4 - 4 40 441 44 1 40,44 144 361 4 - .3 4 5 7 - 38 JO 46 36 40 132 J 5 : 4 8 3r, 41 6h 36 i 3 39 I 1 47 14r 501 3 41 1(1 E 34 40 ,i 8 39 a; 40 10 43 1•l 4 1 10 441 41 - .56 40 44 501 SO sA6 .34 49 14 30 44 4S 42 48 37 38 144 46 tt; 46 ...' :-,s•' • lite' —, .4o 36 4% 41 40 A 5 i; 6 I- - bt? - li 10 -- I_ .... ..... 7- .. ..- i 8 9 I- -- _ -- -- I- - I- 9 1 0 I i to I 9 10► I- - 6 -- ~, II 1 3 II it; ..- JO i~ .-.- 1...•••• als l o V o e f i.l l. ll ' v lo e u a r ga at i i l d l l O 'ad atu a lerlr LivaHroot, unitx ExcIIANGE• week has been languid, and prices rather declined. However; this day's market being full of country dealers, who lioues• freely of Icheat and Oats, the prices we last quoted were lug, sail mainta , ned. Malting Barley and Alan were slack in sale rather lower. In Beans, Flour, or Oatmeal there was no flue" tuation. A cargo of Dantzig Wheat in bond, and one of Da* nigh Barley; were sold by auction on Thurs d ay : thelornie r but arr i I t ' ll el of demandav every I i t i l n u a n throughout o a u r a i t the n ; sold at 44. per 701 b., quality fine. a nd the law!' at Is. sd. per 601 b., and 400 barrels of stale and sour European Flour at Ile , per barrel. Wheat, Engltsit,Old P. 64 a lov ail per ;cabs. New 9, 9il a tons Oil Dittosuond ~s oil a 0$ 1:d Scotch, New Canada (free) Bl Oil a ss s d - .Foreigh (free) . • Irish . , Old sNe Barley, E n i b i l g e l i i g sl , , , , (N O fre h : t e.) pct• ti • Irish, Old New 4, Od at 4s ad Scotelt,Old os od a Os Od New W I, Potat o, New Oats, Potato, t.isi old Os Oil aos od per 4.51bi1• New Limerick, Old :slew Foreign (free) os od il, , O s 0,1 ~ Malt, Fine is Ott a 7, od per I m peri l Ditto, middlin; 7s Oil a 7s 3d Beans, Old New 44s OCI 4 45s 44 inporfine - Flour, Ohl per quarter; per '2301b9' per 1401bo. ••150,i 041 a :Ws od Oatmeal, Mil —s od a -;-s od New New Its od a 33s Od .. watt American Flour, sweet, (i n h oo d) 23, Cl a 24s o d per us. of 19tilhs, oet.—Soor, f_oilt of hood), 305 a 3 2 .. Import q of tirain fe the ‘Veek ending Aptil. l7 ' fr idtp Wheat. Harley. Oats. I r Flour. • Saiki "o, ush.7olush .oolb Bush . 461 b 1 Fo. Brill , Per . It 1) p UAW) 4,780 110,100 '9O /9 Packs of Oatmeal, per i 4 i,823 On Friday, the 21st in4tBIRTH.., 1:111-11111.houge, B illeriegv Essex, the lady of Col one l C. B ruce , C. 8., of a son. 3IARRIED. the On the 2ttth inst., at .St. George's Tranover-sqoare , Rev. Edward O g l e , J ames MactianAl, Esq. ALP, ° Charlotte, youn ges t d aug h ter o f die Rev. J. S. 0 „ 1 c, of glr ley-hall, Northumberland, mlor, On the 11th in s t., at the Chapel of the British AmbalBP-ii,r at Paris, Le M arqu i s tie Blaiscl, Chamberlain to the Ernul on . of Austria, to illaria Matilda, second daughter of t he Wm. Bingham, of the United States of Americo: On Saturday last, at St. John's, Hackney, by thq B ev. ' to Clare, Rector of St. Bride's, Robert, youngest son of the .1„ Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, to Mary, youngest daughter of tile Wl° Thomas Pomeroy, Esq. On the 2tlth inst., at St. Mary's Church, B r yanstone- 10 . 14 . re ie!. by the Rev. 'William Lowth, Charles Peers, Esq. o f . 91 1 10 , hampton Lodge, in the County of Oxford, to Ma l l' - this' daughter of the late Rev. Robert 1.. , 0wth, of Gran Hau g ' o , Pr• wick, in the County of ,;lithllesex, and grand-daughter Louth, formerly Bishop of Lon' MED. On the 19th inst., aged 40, Sarah Ann, the wif e of Air' W. Col eman, surgeon, Br4f S a ton . of On the 11th init.. Hobert mart, only son of M r. Warrender-street, Fitzroy.square, a d 19 . wa p t orth , On Thursday, the 20th inst., at Narfolk-place, Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Stephrnts. , „or, On the 30th which day Ate completed her Iffitaire. Mrs. Gunnis, of Kirby Lay thorpe, near Sleaiord, , I.!snw She had been a Widow f;7 year SVY I4 Printed and Published for the Prtomr.Torts, at the - OrricE, No. 11?., Strand, by J. B. CAUSTAIRS. Pew. ,li.@ 1. ! 9, 1145 •-- I •••• 38. ,40 40 3111 •-"" 130 3D ""*". 3f; 46 I--. Outs.